Official Compilation of Codes, Rules and Regulations of the State of New York

Title 2. Department of Audit and Control

§ 203.6 Budget and financial plan presentation.

Each budget or financial plan shall be accompanied by:

(a) an explanation of the public authority's relationship with the unit or units of government, if any, on whose behalf or benefit the authority was established;

(b) a description of the budget process, including the dates of key budget decisions;

(c) a description of the principal budget assumptions, including sources of revenues, staffing and future collective bargaining costs, and programmatic goals;

(d) a self-assessment of budgetary risks;

(e) a revised forecast of the current year's budget;

(f) a reconciliation that identifies all changes in estimates from the projections in the previously approved budget or plan;

(g) a statement of the last completed fiscal year's actual financial performance in categories consistent with the proposed budget or financial plan;

(h) a projection of the number of employees, including sources of funding, the numbers of full-time and full-time equivalents, and functional classifications;

(i) a statement of each revenue-enhancement and cost-reduction initiative that represents a component of any gap-closing program and the annual impact on revenues, expenses and staffing;

(j) a statement of the source and amount of any material non-recurring resource that is planned for use in any given fiscal year;

(k) a statement of any transactions that shift material resources from one year to another and the amount of any reserves;

(l) a statement of borrowed debt projected to be outstanding at the end of each fiscal year covered by the budget or financial plan; the planned use or purpose of debt issuances; scheduled debt service payments for both issued and proposed debt; the principal amount of proposed debt and assumed interest rate(s); debt service for each issuance as a percentage of total pledged revenues, listed by type or category of pledged revenues; cumulative debt service as a percentage of available revenues; and amount of debt that can be issued until legal limits are met; and

(m) a statement of the annual projected capital cost broken down by category and sources of funding, and for each capital project, estimates of the annual commitment, total project cost, expected date of completion and the annual cost for operating and maintaining those capital projects or capital categories that, when placed into service, are expected to have a material impact on the operating budget.